VIEWS FROM THE LOCH
Angling,news and comment from around the loch. The news pages of St Mary's Angling Club on St Mary's loch in the Scottish Borders UK.

Sunday, 11 September 2016

Round up!

Photo 01- Craig's fine eighteen pounder!

Round up!

This week
our photo’s come from Craig Hunter, a long time member of the club and the pictures
he sent are of two very fine fish. One is an eighteen pound Pike from the big
loch caught in early June. The other is
a rare beast indeed a Brown Trout from the Lowes and again it looks to be in
pristine condition, well done Craig!

The Pike
would have been the heaviest caught this year but for the efforts of Scott Redpath who on
Saturday hooked and landed a 21lbs 9oz fish (photo next week). In addition to
that beauty he hooked but lost another good double in a super mornings fishing.
Well done Scott, yours is now the one to
beat!

The club
owes a debt of gratitude to our permit sellers/checkers who are doing a most
thorough job with many anglers that I have spoken with telling me that I was
the third person to check their permission to fish. The lower basin of St Mary’s
has always been a neglected area but now we have it covered along with the far
side of the loch which is very good news indeed, our current coverage is in
fact the best the club has ever attained! We have in the last two months taken
in significant revenue which will stand us in good stead for the future!

A further
two new members have now sent in their details and we are most grateful to
them. What is becoming more apparent is that more anglers are keen to help out
with works to be carried out. This is very welcome news as we will be
proceeding with the floating pier early 2017 with much of the preparatory work
being carried out over the winter! Although many members help out week after
week we only ask for one session and would be most grateful for any help offered.

We are
getting some regular visitors from far flung places with Manchester Mick up again
for a two day session and a group of three from Newcastle up for the second time and a chap from Morecambe arriving on Friday evening with his girlfriend
for a session until Sunday. Three anglers from the Glasgow region arriving on
Saturday for an overnight session make up the pre booked anglers. I had to turn
away a group of three dedicated Perch anglers who were set to come with their
own boat kitted out with sonar and other aids. The directive from our riparian
owners is quite clear no private boats allowed on the lochs.

Not really
much of a surprise more a perennial expectation, rubbish left on the loch shores,
some left by anglers and some by campers. Oh it was left in neat piles making
it easier to pick up, but that is the rub someone
has to pick it up! On this occasion Ian and I removed the crap consisting
of empty beer bottles, Buckfast bottles (always a danger sign!) and loads of
broken glass which is very dangerous! When
will these people ever learn, take your rubbish home!

Mr Xxxxx continues to keep a low profile with many locals saying that they have not set eyes
on him for weeks. We believe he is still in the area and given the number of
members incensed by his ridiculous antics it’s probably best that he remains
incognito! It is perhaps the correct consequence for a man exposed as a bitter
and twisted liar! Our investigations are ongoing.

Lost my
phone yesterday and thought all I had to do was type in “find my phone” on Google.
I did and it didn’t! Yes all that came up was location unavailable. I was able
to lock it making it unusable and erase any data on it but that’s a wedge of cash down the drain!
I need to thank club member Davy who insisted on coming with me to try and
locate it, your help was much appreciated, and that was just after landing a 19lbs 10oz Pike a PB for him, so well done
on that mate! My phone number will
be out of commission until Tuesday so if you need to make contact between now
and then please e mail.

The wider world in my view!

Paralympics!

How heartwarming to tune in to see the grit and determination
shown by these disadvantaged people. Yes every one of them could show up
significant numbers of able bodied types! We sometimes take our lives for
granted and moan about the least wee thing watching these individuals certainly
brings me back down to earth!

A universal mess!

You don’t hear too much these days about the Tory flagship
policy of universal credit. The benefit that was to simplify the benefits
system has already cost us hundreds of millions of pounds and is still not
ready to be rolled out! According to the Guardian it will take at least two
further years and if the continual cutting of money is not halted it will turn
out to be an almighty mess!

But did you really expect anything else? This policy has been
a disaster ever since it was conceived and it looks increasingly likely that it
will end up as a complete fiasco! The reason is quite simple, many Tories
thought the payments were too much and meddling with the funds required are
guaranteed to send it off the rails yet again!

The worry for us in Scotland is that new benefit powers are
coming to the devolved parliament and it is crucial that the Borg queen and her
minions are not allowed in any way to influence the wishes of the Scottish government!
Our government has already stated that benefits must remain people centred and
thoughts of cost cutting and sanctions must remain in England!

I have no doubt that the bewildered voter that swelled the
Tory ranks in Scotland are kicking themselves now as the “strong opposition”
promised turned out to be a megaphone with each pronouncement starting with England
calling! Yes the Scottish Tories are directionless, devoid of ideas and simply
pump out Westminster policies in a Scottish accent!

Universal credit will cost all of plenty not in pay outs but
rather in time honoured bungling! We need to care for the poor, weak and infirm
in our society, allowing Tories to get their hands on the reins will not
achieve that goal! Like almost everything they have gotten their hands on
universal credit will be a mega costly farce. We really do need to get rid of these stuck up diddy’s!

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